Tallahassee Reports has recovered an email that shows City Commissioner Nancy Miller soliciting a donation from Waste Pro – a city vendor – through Paige Carter-Smith for the North West Florida League of Cities. The solicitation email was sent from Miller’s official City of Tallahassee email. Records show that Carter-Smith was not registered as a […]

Tallahassee Reports has learned that the City of Tallahassee has been transferring unused fees paid by citizens for garbage service to a reserve fund, that as of June of this year, totals $9,026,743. According to budget documents, the reserve fund has increased from $3.9 million in June 2009 to the current level of $9 million. […]

Back in the summer of 2014, Leon County Commissioners got an earful from county residents who called to complain about the garbage service they were getting from the Waste Pro. The County Commission promptly fined Waste Pro approximately $90,000 for a failure to provide service and set out to implement solutions to stop the service […]

An exclusive analysis by Tallahassee Reports of the solid waste contracts negotiated separately by the Leon County Board of County Commissioners and the City of Tallahassee with Waste Pro, Inc. over the last year has revealed two different approaches of dealing with consumers dollars. The County Approach The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) previously had […]